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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

greptime.com

machbase.com

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Machbase

Teradata

Initial release

2013

2022

2013

2005

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

R packages

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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